About the AUD/MDL rate
The AUD/MDL rate is how many MDL one Australian dollar buys. It moves constantly with interest-rate expectations, commodity prices and global risk sentiment - see what moves the rate. Tradergy shows the mid-market reference rate and does not forecast where it’s heading. For the 52-week highs and lows and a daily table, see the AUD/MDL rate history.
Reading the same rate from the other side: the reverse rate, MDL → AUD, is on the receiving Moldovan leu view, and sending Australian dollars to Moldova is covered on the AUD → MDL transfer page. Every AUD pair sits on the convert hub, and to work in more than one currency at once there is the currency converter.
How far Moldova's foreign exchange law reaches
A shop, restaurant, hotel or petrol station in Moldova may not take payment in foreign cash. Article 20 of the Law on foreign exchange regulation bars payments in foreign currency between residents and non-residents in those outlets and similar establishments, with the exceptions written into the same provision: entities operating in international traffic, shops in international airports, aircraft on international flights, and international border crossing points.
Between residents the rule is broader still. Article 21 requires payments and transfers between residents on Moldovan territory to be made in national currency, and then enumerates what escapes that in a list running to more than a dozen entries, among them dealings where one party is a bank, insurance and non-bank lending, licensed payment providers, loans between individuals, real-estate purchases between resident individuals, excess-baggage payments at international airports, sales aboard international transport, bureau de change operations, business-travel expenses, charitable donations, inheritance, and numismatic sales of banknotes and coins.
Article 25 caps the foreign-currency cash a resident legal entity may keep at a cashier's office at the end of the working day at two thousand euros or the equivalent per office, exempting sellers operating aboard transport in international traffic until they reach their destination in Moldova.
Capital movements are treated much more lightly than any of that. Article 6 provides that capital operations bringing money in are performed without restriction unless other legislation says otherwise, and that operations taking money out need no authorisation from the National Bank of Moldova unless the Law provides otherwise. Certain loans and credits from non-residents fall under a notification regime, and the statute states expressly that notification does not mean approval or authorisation by the Bank.
The currency itself is the Bank's alone to make. The National Bank states that it has the exclusive right to release banknotes and metal coins as the form of currency on Moldovan territory, and lists nine denominations in circulation, the twenty-lei note being the only one it dates to 1993.
Sources: Law on foreign exchange regulation no. 62-XVI of 21 March 2008, Parliament of the Republic of Moldova (unofficial English translation hosted by the National Bank of Moldova) · National Bank of Moldova, About the national currency · National Bank of Moldova, Banknotes